Cheese-hoop.



C. S. BROWN 6v A. S. BRINCKERHOPF.

CHEESE HOOP.

APPLIOATION FILED s219128, 190s.

Patented July 27, 1909.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.

CHARLES S. BROWN AND ALBERT S. BRINCKERHOFF, OF UTICA, NEW YORK.

CHEESE-HOOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

:Patented July 27, i909.

Application led September 28, 1908. Serial No. 454,970.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES S. BROWN and ALBERT S. BRINCKERHOEF, citizens of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful lmy provenients in Cheese-Presses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

Our invention relates to an improved cheese-hoop, and we declare thefollow'ing is form of cheese, and which device goes by the general term ofv a cheese hoop as distinguished froma cheese press wherein several of these devices are assembled and pressure applied to them.

XVe illustrate herein a single form of what. is called a cheese-lioop, but it will be understood that our improvement is applicable to any device used'for inassing the cheese curd in the commercial article.

The purpose of the device is to press or foiin the cheese by the use of any mechanical and suitable means and in any appropriate manner, but forming it with a central vertical hole. By making the cheese with such a hole or aperture the waste is avoided that occurs in the cutting of a solid cheese in the ordinary manner from the circumference to the center, by reason of the crumbling away of the apex of the pieces thus cut. The same manner of cutting a cheese which has the central bore produces pieces which have blunt points, so to speak. The saving of material in the latter instance is a volume equal to the size of the bore.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of the device, portions of the side of several members being broken away. Fig.Y

2 is a central sectional view. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a part.

Referring to the drawings in detail 1 is a vessel, in this instance circular and metallic, of proper size and thickness, and which may ordinarily be termed a hoop or band. Its lower edge is flared or turned inwardly, as

seen at 2, to form a support for the reinovable bottom of the vessel. The band or vessel is made with its lower part perhaps a half of its vertical measurement of a given diameter, the other or upper half being of a slightly larger diameter, leaving a flare between the upper and lower edges, the upper part, that of the larger diameter being designated by 3.

At 5 is shown a band adapted to it int-o the enlarged upper portion 3 of the hoop 1. This band or hoop, like the hoop above described, is of suitable material and thickness for the purpose. It consists of a hoop hav-- ing its ends secured by some ordinary catch to hold them together whereby the band may be slipped down in the upper portion of the hoop or vessel A.

The bottom of the device, 6,fis a sheet of metal or other suitable material, with small perforations 7 to allow the escape of the liquid, and is supported within the vessel on the flange 2, being removable, however, therefrom. On this disk or plate 6 is mounted a tubular member 8 having within it a coil spring 9 supported on a bottom piece 10 made integral with the bottom 6 or secured on the tubular member 8,. lithin the tubular member 8 is a plug 12 which may be either solid or tubular, and which is adapted at its inner end to bear against the spring 9 and slide freely in and out of the tubular member 8.

lll represents a plate or cover which is placed on top of t-lie Vcurd in the hoop or press and to which pressure is applied by any suitable means to press the contents of the hoop. This board or .cover is intended to bear against the end of the plugf12 so that the pressure applied to theboard will crowd the plug 12 into the tubeS such distance as may be necessary in thoroughly compressing the contents of the vessel and maintaining the central bore or aperture.

15 represents a cover or cloth which is placed over the curd within the hoop 2 or to be pressed therein when the board or presser 14 is in place.

16 is a cloth of suitable texture laid over the inner surface of the perforated bottom 6 which prevents the exudation of the material to be pressed, but allows the pressing of the liquid therethrough. A cloth or cover or bandage 17 is also placed within the vessel 1 over its top and between the vessel and the hoop 5.

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At 18 is shown a cloth of tubularform placed over the inner telescoping members' wherewith to form the rind on thecentral" bore or aperture. It will be understood that any suitable material other than cloth may bev used. .Y n

In' lpractice'the bottom G with the col lapsible tube thereon isfplacedf in the vessel 1 and the cloth 16 is laid on the surface of the bottom, andfthe'cloth or bandage His then peut inplace aroundthe -inside of the hoop, and.l the ringor hoop is then put in place, as seen'in 11`ig.1.V Curd-is then filled into thevessel toproper height, when the cover cloth 15 is llaid on top and thel board or cover 14, by which pressure is applied, is placed within .thehoop r1`he contents are pressed for a suitable time, after which the cover-14is removedand the band 5; taken out, `the clothv 17 being then brought directly against the side surface of the upper'portion of the mass thus formed. `The board-sor cover 14 is then replaced and furthervv pressure applied, the lboard pressing the 4tubular member or plugvlQ into its socket fas the com-` pression'reduces the volume of the'contents.

In practice several of these devices'are'arranged in series, thebottom of 4one fitting into the' enlarged upper portion ofthe other, the vessel having `different top and bottom diameters for this purpose` andsalso to pre ventthe band or hoop 5 slipping to the bot-- tom of the vessel-and becoming inaccessible fonremoval after the initialV pressure has been applied.V f' le `have shown the device in a single em-r bodiment, but it will be understood'that it is applicable to a variety of uses and condi-` tions.

Having described our invention, xwhat we claim as new and desire to Vsecure by Letters Patent, is:

V1. A cheese hoop comprisingtelescoping outerwalls and inner telescoping members whereby'to allow compression-of a quantity' of material into an interiorly apertured mass, substantially as described.

2. A cheese hoop with its outer-wall comprising two portions of different diameters, l

a collar slidably mounted within the portion of. greater diameter, and aremoyable perforated bottom with telescoping members mounted thereon, and a spring in said telescoping members whereby they are normally kept in extended position in combination, substantially as described.

- 8. Ach'eese hoop 'having a bottom with telescoping members vertically mounted thereon, and a springfinou-nted in one` and bearing against the other-normally extend* ing VAthem, whereby to maintaina central space inthe product formed within the hoop, substantially' as described. i

4. 1nV .a cheese hoop,- interiorly' mounted telescoping"members.located toform an interior bore in the cheese, substantially as described 1 Y z In a cheese-hoop, interiorlry mounted telescoping members located to form an interiorrbore in thecheese, and a rind-forming material surrounding the said members, whereby to forman inner bore in the cheese, substantially as-described. y

G. ln a cheese-hoop,the combination with telescoping outer `and interior members adaptedlto. form anfouter surface and van interior bore inet-he cheese, of means associated with said members-whereby to form -a rind on the outer and the inner surfaces of the cheese, substantially as described.A

- 7.1111 a cheese h'oopythe combination with telescoping and interior members adapted to 'form an outer surface and an interior bore in the cheese, of a follower of the area Iofy the inside vareazof the outer telescoping member and pressing 'against the end of the inner telescoping' members whereby to compress the material and to lreduce the inner telescoping members to thefheight-of the finished product;` substantially as described.

i In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES s. Brown.

ALBERT S. BRINCKERHOFF.

Vitnesses:l Y

ET. 'DE GIORGI,

HENRY M. LOVE. 

